What will be the nodejs equivalent of PHP curl code [duplicate] - php

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This might seem really silly but I'm trying to get some data from an API (WHMCS). In the docs they have code something like this:
// Call the API
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whmcsUrl . 'includes/api.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postfields));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_error($ch)) {
die('Unable to connect: ' . curl_errno($ch) . ' - ' . curl_error($ch));
}
curl_close($ch);
// Decode response
$jsonData = json_decode($response, true);
// Dump array structure for inspection
var_dump($jsonData);
I've written code in nodejs using axios which aims to do the same thing:
axios.get(whmcsUrl + `includes/api.php?accesskey=${apiAccessKey}`, postFields)
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.log(err))
Don't have a deep knowledge of either PHP or Node, please help! I'm getting a 403 Forbidden when I execute this request in node? What am I doing wrong.
Update: Instead of passing an object (postFields), I'm now passing things like username or pw in the url itself:
axios.post(whmcsUrl + `includes/api.php?action=${apiAction}&username=${apiIdentifier}&password=${apiSecret}&accesskey=${apiAccessKey}&responsetype=json`)
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.log(err))
Its still giving me 403 Forbidden error.

Answer 1

The axios equivalent of CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($postfields) is twofold - first stringify the params and pass them as the post body and secondly specify application/x-www-form-urlencoded as the content type in the headers.
Something like this:
const axios = require('axios')
const qs = require('qs')
const data = qs.stringify(postFieldsObject)
const config = {
method: 'post',
url: `${whmcsUrl}includes/api.php`,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
},
data : data
}
axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data))
})
.catch(function (error) {
console.log(error)
})